Trace carrier



W. F. RAMIGE TRACE CARRIER Oct. 7 g

Filed Oct. 5, 1923 Patented Get. 7, 1924,

UNHTEE VJILLIAJNI l7. RAMIGE, OF ROCKW'ELL CITY, IOWA.

TRACE CARRIER.

Application. filed October '5, 1923.

To all wham it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLI in F. iii-Anion, a citizen of the United States of 4 merica, and resident of Rockwell City, in the county of Calhoun and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful "improvements in Trace Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to trace holders for harness, and has for an object the production of a trace holder adapted to be used in connection with the socalled Concord llfllIlGSS 21S DOW' 0011111101113 made.

It is a further object of this invention to produce a trace carrier of the character indicated, having means for the attachment of harness straps combined with the trace carrier, the same comprising a frame integral with the race carrying device and preferably formed of a single piece of material by the casting processes, whereby the device can be made inexpensively while at the same time it will prove efficient and satisfactory in use.

Another object of this invention is to produce aframe to which the harness straps can be connected, and a supplemental frame integral therewith having hearings in which a member is partially rotatable, the said member having springs ooacting with a part of the supplemental frame whereby they act as retaining devices for holding the traces in place.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming partof this application wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views. and in which-' Figure 1 illustrates view in perspective of a trace holder embodying the invention;

Figure 2 illustrates a perspective view of a slightly modified form thereof; and

Figure 3 illustrates a perspective view of the spring and its carrier.

In these drawings 5 denotes the body or frame which may be approximately round or elliptical, the said frame constituting an anchorage for harness straps such as 6. A. supplemental trace carrying frame is formed integral with the first mentioned frame,

Serial No. 666,737.

and in they present embodiment f the invention, the supplemental frame connected to the first mentioned frame by lu' each having a recess 8 at its inner ed forming a seat for the bar 9, which bar has a XOtiiKiGCl surface contacting with the seat in order that the bar may partially rotate. as will presently appear.

The bar 9 has a spring 10 extending through it and each end of the spring bears against a hook or lug ll which depencs from the supplemental frame. The pressure of the spring against the lugs is suflicient to retain the trees 12 against accidental displacement after they have been inserted in the llOlu. by depressing the spring to a degree which will permit the insertion of the trace between the spring and the lug.

The lugs 11 preferably extend to or below the plane of the upper surface of the frame or body 5 so that when a trace extends over the frame or body 5 and engages the lugs it is approximately parallel with the axis of the body or frame 5. When the trace is thus held, there can be no appreciable pressure exerted by it on the springs and the traces are not apt to displace the springs to a degree that will release the traces.

The supplemental frame has two parallel and approximately horizontal portions 13 and let that are raised with respect to the lugs and the frame 5, and each is connected to or formed a part of the lugs '7 by reason of the fact that each portion 13 and 1% has depending ends 15 terminating in inwardly disposed extensions that are connected to or formed integral with the lugs 7, as stated. The lugs 11 are preferably formed equidistantly from (ilepending \.ll\ portions and the clearance therebetween is sufficlent to permit the insertion of a trace in the manner stated. The frame appropriate loops 16 to whirh harness may be connected and these, of course, formed integral with the frame interests of minimizing the cost.

In the modification shown in Fig. 2, the frame 17 has a supplemental frame 18 therein in raised position as compared with th position of the frame 17. and the supplemental frame is supported by the posts or legs 19 that are integral with the two frames. Two opposed elements of the supplemental frame have lugs 20 that engage an end of a spring 21 secured to the bar 22 that oscillates in bearings 23 formed integral with the supplemental frame, and this relation of parts permits the portion of the spring to one side of the bar to yield slightly when a trace is being inserted between a lug and the spring at its opposite end, the yielding action thus produced permitting the bar to partially rotate in the hearings so that there is no strain on the bar which. would tend to fracture it.

A further advantage of this invention is that if the spring or bar become impaired, another element may be substituted, and hence by the removal of this very small part of the whole construction, the devire can be maintained in an efficient state at comparatively small cost.

I. claim:

1. In a trace holder, a frame constituting an anchorage for harness straps, lugs within the area of the frame having recesses forming bearings, parallel supplemental frame members supported in spaced relation to each other from the said lugs, downwardly extending trace-engaging elements on the said parallel portions of the said supplemental frame, a bar rotatably mounted in the bearings of the lugs, and a sprlng having its ends extending laterally of the said bar the first mentioned frame, a member rotatable in the bearings, a spring extending through the said member and into engagement with the lugs, substantially as described. I

WILLIAM F. names. 

